Thursday, November 13, 2014

Gloves on sale of visas to Angola – Morning Post

Gloves on sale of visas to Angola – Morning Post

On the Luanda government involved Entrepreneur. Manuel Palos, director of the SEF, was known by the “ten percent” that would charge fees.

Manuel Palos, director of the SEF was known under investigation for ” ten percent. ‘ This is the purpose of a sentence caught in a wiretap and that prosecutors and judicial police believe to be a clear reference to the values ​​which charged fees in exchange for his endorsement in the allocation of certain gold seen – and that involved huge investments in housing by immigrants, especially Chinese and Angolans.

Moreover, Angolans are also involved as intermediaries, who make customer acquisition golden visas to Portugal, in the receiving scheme gloves. One of the suspects is a businessman with close links to the Angola government of that country, which was once a consultant for the Ministry of Justice in Luanda and reached collaborate in a protocol involving the counterpart ministry in Portugal, overseen by Paula Teixeira da Cruz. This entrepreneur has a direct connection to António Figueiredo, president of the Institute of Registries and Notaries, which concentrates the bulk of the PJ investigation. The same is still Angolan companies in Portugal, in the district of Leiria.

In research collaborations are also four other officials who arrived IRN to go to Angola to train under a protocol between the two ministries of Justice. The same officials have cooperated in one of the companies in the Angolan businessman who is a friend of Antonio Figueiredo. The work would be justified under the Protocol and paid by the Portuguese Ministry of Justice, but aimed to private and work visas tied to gold

Also Chinese businessmen. – Were arrested last three – are suspected of involvement in corruption scheme. They provided immigrant visas interested in gold and were complicit in inflating the value of the property. Chinese millionaires who have visas needed to make investments in excess of 500 000 euros paid by real estate prices far above the market, which generated profit margins brutal that allowed the payment of kickbacks on several levels.

case of the Chinese, the trivialization of the gloves in the home country facilitated the scheme. Entrepreneurs felt that if they did not pay thousands of euros ‘out’ would never see his process be handled quickly.

PCP and BE wants Doors in committee

The PCP and the BE has requested the urgent presence of the Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas in committee to discuss the economics of gold seen. The PS, more cautious, said only that will follow with great attention these events, we consider very serious. Vieira da Silva, vice-president of the Socialist benches, added that the party will act “with the necessary reserve in relation to a process that is still making strides and that does not allow you to have all of the available information.”

During the presentation of the most recent balance sheet about the program, Paulo Portas noted that in two years the visa surpassed all goals that the Government had undertaken, contributing to the recovery of the housing market and boosting tourism.

“The so-called visa outperformed gold so far all the goals we had established: in 2013, about € 300 million, which was 50 percent above the goal I set in Parliament; and in 2014, already are well above the 500 million euros it had projected, “said the deputy prime minister.

The first scandal involving gold visa was known in March, when a Chinese with international arrest warrants was arrested . the Judicial Police

The question was always: how it was possible to issue a visa to a golden target of an investigation citizen in China

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